The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the Countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same ...
... success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the Countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same ...
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... success ; his interrupted lines are unpleasing , and his sense as less distinct is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little ...
... success ; his interrupted lines are unpleasing , and his sense as less distinct is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little ...
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... the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession by which something might be gotten ; and , about the time 20 CONGREVE . CONGREVE.
... the usual preparatory studies , as may be reasonably supposed , with great celerity and success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession by which something might be gotten ; and , about the time 20 CONGREVE . CONGREVE.
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... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief artifice of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words ; he is very angry , and , hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons ...
... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief artifice of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words ; he is very angry , and , hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons ...
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... time when literary curiosity was yet confined to particular classes of the nation . Such success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than 32 BLACKMORE .
... time when literary curiosity was yet confined to particular classes of the nation . Such success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than 32 BLACKMORE .
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